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On behalf of Warren & Siurek, L.L.P. posted in blog on Thursday, April 26, 2018.

Keeping up with your male counterparts is difficult in the face of wage discrimination. It is even harder to keep up if you are a Latina living in the state of Texas. Nationally, Latina women make, on average, 54 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earn. In Texas, it is even less. Hispanic women in Texas make only about 44 cents on the dollar compared to men.

On behalf of Warren & Siurek, L.L.P. posted in blog on Monday, April 16, 2018.

For many workers, their experience and education will not be the determining factor in how much they will make. In fact, their credentials could be entirely irrelevant in the salary that they will be offered. How can that be?

On behalf of Warren & Siurek, L.L.P. posted in blog on Monday, April 9, 2018.

If you have a benefit plan at work, those benefits likely make up a significant part of your total compensation. This can include not only health insurance and retirement-plan contributions, but also disability insurance, employee-stock options, profit-sharing plans and other benefits.

On behalf of Warren & Siurek, L.L.P. posted in blog on Thursday, March 15, 2018.

If you are an hourly wage worker in the state of Texas, you should know some basic information about how wage and hour laws work. Sometimes employers violate certain parts of the wage and hour laws in order to maximize profits, while cheating their employees out of regular or overtime pay they are legally entitled to.

On behalf of Warren & Siurek, L.L.P. posted in blog on Saturday, March 3, 2018.

When you moved to Texas from your home country, your goal was to build a better life for you and your family. You have many opportunities in the United States, but like others, you had to start from the bottom and work your way up. As a farm worker, your skills are necessary for everyone living in the country, but if you are facing wage and hour injustices by your employer, you are unfortunately far from alone.

On behalf of Warren & Siurek, L.L.P. posted in blog on Monday, January 29, 2018.

If you are 40 years old or older, you may face age discrimination at work. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, it is illegal for employers to discriminate against older workers. However, sometimes discriminatory practices are not always obvious.

On behalf of Warren & Siurek, L.L.P. posted in blog on Tuesday, January 2, 2018.

When you came to America, you did so with the hope of creating a better life for you and your family. Working on a farm is one of the most common ways for migrants to make a living and get a good start in our country. You and other farmworkers in Texas need to understand that, just like natural-born citizens, you have the right to fair and humane treatment by your employers. Unfortunately, the opposite is true for far too many migrant workers across the country.

On behalf of Warren & Siurek, L.L.P. posted in blog on Tuesday, November 7, 2017.

If you are a worker who receives minimum wage, every penny of your paycheck counts. Some workers are victims of wage theft. This occurs when your employer somehow pays you less than what the company actually owes you. This type of theft can happen when your employer steals your tips, does not pay you for the overtime you have worked or forces you to work off the clock.

On behalf of Warren & Siurek, L.L.P. posted in blog on Sunday, October 1, 2017.

During the recent natural disaster of Hurricane Harvey, many workers were physically stuck at their work location, unable to leave. Whether their hours at work are compensable may depend on several factors.

On behalf of Warren & Siurek, L.L.P. posted in blog on Wednesday, August 30, 2017.

To protect workers' rights, there are state and federal laws concerning overtime pay. In the state of Texas, employers have to pay overtime if employees work more than 40 hours a week. That means if an employee workers 12 hours one day, 10 hours the next, 12 hours the following day and nothing else for the rest of the week, then he could not receive overtime. Some states work on a daily basis.

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